Adding a GTX 680 and water cooling
Time to finalize the X2 system and also do a little experimenting. I ordered a GTX 680 used through eBay as I wanted to test how well it’d work through th...
Time to finalize the X2 system and also do a little experimenting. I ordered a GTX 680 used through eBay as I wanted to test how well it’d work through th...
The Colony West project continues… this time with more proof of concept on the ideas I have in mind. In this case it’s hooking up the graphics cards...
I’ll just say this up front: the ASRock PCI-E extender can be a little finnicky. For some reason, the GT 620 would stop being recognized by the BOINC clie...
In the previous article in the series on this project, I mentioned I had a spare GT 620. The card specifically is the Zotac GT 620 2GB. Unfortunately I couldn...
In an earlier post I wrote about my plan to put a bunch of older hardware I have just laying around back to work. As I intend this to be an ongoing, evolving th...
If you’re like me, you’ve probably collected a bunch of older hardware that is left over from previous upgrades. And it’s probably sitting aro...
First a recap on the current parts of the system, starting with the base parts. CPU, mainboard, RAM: AMD FX-8350, ASRock 990FX Extreme6, 8 GB Graphics: PNY GTX ...
The fan experiment is going fairly well so far. I’ve been keeping an eye on temperatures and basically looking for a sweet spot for dialing everything in....
So where I last left things, I said that I had ordered a replacement northbridge cooler for the mainboard. I replaced the 40mm fan that came with that northbrid...
The new power supply is installed and so far has been running steady without any problems. The only minor concern about the EVGA power supply is its PCI-E power...
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